It was a privilege to watch it with my 19 year old son. He made it home from work by the 4th inning and just the two of us spent time together in my shop watching the game. We talked about my grandparents who were North Siders and lived their entire lives as fans. My grand father coached little league and would of loved this Series Win.

In 2002 my older son and I went to Florida to see 3 games against the Marlin, we were up 3-1 and lost the series after a curse was placed by one of our own fans reaching into the outfield and blocking a catch, so we never made it to the the World Series. He is now 32, so this time with my younger son I was glad to beat that curse.

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They first refereed to the game as the world series as far back as 1912, long before any other countries played it or even heard of it. I even found a reference from 1887 to Word series. I cant find an exact reason other than it was the only place in the world at the time that had the game in leagues

In 2016 it truly is a world game as all the best players in the world are on the teams, The teams are made up of people from all over the world as 28.4% of the players are not even from America.

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Why some of you guys want to spoil this great game beyond your US borders beffudles mel

It is the best darn game ever devised imo. The more I've ever tried to learn of it, the more I've come to discern it is the most intricate and multi-divverse game on the planet I know of.

When they play their "World Series", to me, it IS the best of the best in basebaĺl. No matter there is a Canadian team. Before long, there may be other non US teams, although the logistics of such are very questionable.

Why some of you guys want to spoil this great game beyond your US borders beffudles mel

It is the best darn game ever devised imo. The more I've ever tried to learn of it, the more I've come to discern it is the most intricate and multi-divverse game on the planet I know of.

When they play their "World Series", to me, it IS the best of the best in basebaĺl. No matter there is a Canadian team. Before long, there may be other non US teams, although the logistics of such are very questionable.

Our river is dyed Cubs Blue and some are saying the parade could have as many as 3 million people there, topping the 2 million when the Sox won. I am glad I didn't take the kids out of school for that, too many people! But great fun!

I only went near Chicago one time back in '63. (a long time ago, evn before i was 39) I had occasion to close down my busines for 6 months and took a trip to the West Coast. On my way back to CT, the regulator quit in my truck. I could either waste some time searching the wilds of Idahoe and Montana for a new regulator, or take the lazy approach. I turned on every light anywhere on my truck to hopefully prevent burning up my battery, and kept driving. Early in the morning, i was proceeding past Chicago along a main route along Lake Michigan shore when I was pulled over by a friendly gendarme. He told me to stop and to stay put while he drove a couple hundred feet down the road. He told me to get out of my truck and to walk down to where he was waiting.

I had no idea what he was doing until he stopped me and told me to turn around. As I turned around to look at my we'll lite vehicle, he told me to take a good look. I was not sure what I was supposed to be looking at, excpt, at that point, my truck actually looked like a Christmas decoration. He said, and i did not take it as a question, "What the h--l is THAT!?!"

I explained my electrical problem and was told in no uncertain terms that the first thing I was to do was to turn off all of my lights and to get out of Chicago NOW. I did as told and breathed a sigh of relief to have been stopped by a cop with somewhat aparent sence of humor. Once down the road for about half an hour, i turned on all my lights, kept my fingers crossed until back home in Connecticut, where upon i got my electrical system repaired.

I don't recall that my sighting of Lake Michigan had been affected in any way by the deep blue @Dovetail65 that you are showing. Tinker

As a die-hard, lifelong White Sox fan (and season ticket holder) I AM happy for all of my lifelong die-hard Cubs fan friends. It's about time they got the feeling that comes with winning it all. Congrats to them. I DO have to agree that it was probably the greatest World Series game in World Series history. Talk about intensity. Not only was that game good for the Cubs fans, it was very, VERY good for baseball itself. One for the ages.I hate to admit it (as a White Sox fan) but this Cubs team is the best all-around team I have seen in decades. I truly believe they will win 3 of the next 5 World Series. They are young, that good, and almost all under contract.

Speaking of the Rugby thing, too. The loss streak that Ireland had vs. the All Blacks got broken too. I thought I heard that Ireland hasn't beaten them in something like 118 years or some crazy number like that?

We went from the city of cursed sports franchises to the city of curse breakers.

The 5 million people at the parade was said to have been the 7th largest gathering in HUMAN HISTORY. I took the day off so I wouldn't have to drive through THAT mess. Good call on my part if I do say so myself.